Soon we will all be making selfie mini series and binge watching ourselves. vice.com/en_us/article/…
I have advanced two important scientific theories. One, that Chinese tourists can not possibly live long enough to review all the photos they take and secondly that if you aligned the heads perfectly and fast forwarded the pics, it would be funny as hell. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
With selfie sticks, drones and modern smart phones there is no reason why we all can't film every excruciatingly dull detail of our lives and then desperately search for bored people to watch in real time. It would be important to have awards and reviews. digitalcameraworld.com/news/huawei-p4…
Noah Kalina takes photos of himself looking bored every year and then makes videos out of them. The result is... boring. 
Eric Pickersgill photoshops phones out of his photos and creates a creepy alienated world. A world where humans frenetically create or consume content while being tracked and measured by strangers. qz.com/523746/a-photo…
We now know that smart phones, media messaging and measurement of our responses was designed to be addictive, Pavlovian and destructive. vox.com/2018/2/27/1705…
One of my favorites is Marshal McLuhan who explored the impact of advertising and communications in "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" He suggested that content is irrelevant, it is how the media stimulates human beings that should be studied. enculturation.net/teaching-mcluh…
There is enough science on smart phones, social media, mass news penetration and global effect of instant, persistence communications to understand negative factors. Negative influences that are sensed but aren't being communicated clearly to users. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
Over half of teens and 27% of adults are addicted to smart phones. The physical nature of the phone means the content they consume is brief, scans, quips, infotainment and socially sticky content. aka what we used to call tabloid news. The post news era ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Short reads with snappy leads and reposts is the click industry. We are building ad driven industries where influencers shape ideas and drive opinions and our reactions. Outrageous lies and bipolar arguments are stickier that calm unbiased analysis. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-at…
I have spent half of my life traveling thousands of miles into remote or little visited places to have long conversations with dangerous people. I then turn them into long documentaries, thick books and in depth articles. I admit I am a dinosaur.
But my advice is to find a snippet, a tweet or a person or conflict that intrigues you... then go there to deeply immerse yourself, talk all night with earnest people and learn. Fashion something purposeful. You will always be satisfied with life and the human endeavor.
